LYONS, Leon: Died 1988
LYONS, ROLAND, REID, RICHERS, HUNTER, KRAMER, VIERHELIG
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Date: 7/2/2024 at 18:41:01
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1988 JA 18Leon Lyons
Services for Leon Lyons, 75, 1507 35th St., were at 1:30 p.m. today, Jan. 18, at the King-Lynk Funeral Home. Dr. Raymond Boulter officiated. Burial was in Oakland Cemetery.
Mr. Lyons died at 2:22 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, at Fort Madison Community Hospital. He had been in failing health six months and seriously ill one day.
He was born Feb. 17, 1912, at Farmington. He was a retired employee of the Keokuk Steel Castings Co. and was a member of the Santa Fe United Methodist Church and the United Steelworkers of America. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
On Feb. 17, 1934, at Sand Prairie, Ia., he married Georgia Roland, who died Nov. 22, 1985.
Surviving are a step son, Wallace Reid, Fort Madison; two sisters, Mrs. James (Coral) Richers Hunter, Fort Madison, and Mrs. Lilliam Kramer, West Burlington; nephews and nieces.
Besides his wife, he was preceded in death by a step son. His parents were Ernest and Rose Vierhelig Lyons.
Source: "Scrapbook 1986 - 1988", Pg. 530,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA
Van Buren Obituaries maintained by Rich Lowe.
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